Israel's Supreme Court yesterday (November 9, 2011) ordered former President Moshe Katsav to spend seven years in prison, after rejecting his appeal of a rape conviction and other sex crimes, according to the Associated Press website.
The unanimous decision of the three-judge panel ended with Katsav becoming the highest-ranking Israeli official ever sentenced to prison. He will start serving his sentence on December 7.
The ruling was seen as a major triumph for women's rights, and for a legal system willing to take on some of Israel's most influential figures.
Katsav, 65, was convicted by a lower court last December of raping a former employee when he was a Cabinet minister, and of sexually harassing two other women during his term as president from 2000 to 2007.
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